Happy Birthday Michael Fucito, news and notes

Not much to add here on the lead note. But young Sounders FC forward/midfielder Michael Fucito turns less young today.
It’s his 24th birthday, so send your gifts and well wishes.
Not many scattered links tonight either (Sunday wasn’t a huge soccer day):

The well-connected Steven Goff at The Washington Post is hearing links between out-of-work Pat Noonan and Seattle. If it happened, he’d likely fit in as a right midfielder I would think. Sigi Schmid was the head coach in Columbus when Noonan joined the Crew after going to play in Europe. Hmmmmm.